Force logout a user

You terminate a session by killing its parent process, called the session leader. Find out which process it is with:

ps -dN|grep pts/3

To kill and logout a user, you can send KILL signal. Type the following command:

# skill -KILL -u vivek

Check these links for more information:

• http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-kill-and-logout-users.html
• http://www.serverschool.com/server-security/how-to-kill-a-user-session-on-a-linux-server/